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Companies face ethical issues regarding fair wages, humane working conditions, and the right to unionize. Example: Sourcing materials from suppliers that use child labor or have poor working conditions.

Truth in advertising refers to the ethical principle that demands advertisers to be honest with consumers and avoid misleading information. Example: Exaggerating product benefits or hiding potential side effects.

The ethical use of corporate resources touches upon avoiding the wasteful, extravagant, or unauthorized use of a company's assets. Example: An employee uses company property for personal benefit.

Workplace discrimination is the unfair treatment of employees based on race, gender, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, or age. Example: Preferential hiring or promotions based on demographics rather than merit.

Bribery involves offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting something of value as a means of influencing an action. Corruption can entail a wide range of misconducts including bribery. Example: Offering money to a government official to win a public contract.

Companies have a duty to act in the best interest of their shareholders, which can create dilemmas when it conflicts with other ethical considerations. Example: Choosing between shareholder profits and ethical operations.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to a company's initiative to assess and take responsibility for its effects on environmental and social wellbeing. Example: A company is using CSR as a marketing ploy rather than genuinely engaging in sustainable practices.

Environmental responsibility refers to a company's duty to minimize their impact on the environment. Ethical dilemmas arise when companies choose profit over environmental sustainability. Example: Disposing of waste in a manner that saves costs but harms the environment.

Ethical issues around intellectual property rights encompass respecting and protecting creations of the mind, such as inventions or branding. Example: A company copying a competitor’s patented technology or design.

Corporate tax evasion is the illegal non-payment or underpayment of taxes by businesses. Even legal tax avoidance can be an ethical dilemma if it involves immoral legal loopholes. Example: Transferring profits to low-tax jurisdictions to avoid paying taxes.

Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities based on material, non-public information about the company. Example: An executive buys or sells stock based on confidential information that will affect the company’s stock price.

Product safety ethical issues relate to the responsibility of companies to ensure their products are safe for consumers. Dilemmas arise when safety concerns conflict with profit goals. Example: Releasing a product known to have possible harmful effects.

A conflict of interest occurs when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation for an act in the other. Example: An employee who makes decisions that could affect a business in which they have a financial interest.

Data protection and privacy issues involve the obligation of companies to safeguard customer and employee data from misuse and unauthorized access. Example: Failing to implement strong cybersecurity measures that result in a data breach.

Employee privacy issues arise when companies must navigate the fine line between monitoring for security and respect for employees' personal privacy. Example: Excessive surveillance of employees’ work activities or communications.

Health and safety ethical issues involve providing a workplace that protects the well-being of employees and mitigates occupational hazards. Example: Cutting costs by not providing adequate safety equipment or training.

Fair competition principles are meant to ensure a level playing field within the market where no business has an unfair advantage. Ethical dilemmas arise with practices like price fixing or monopolizing. Example: Companies colluding to set higher prices.

Harassment in the workplace involves unwanted, offensive, and intrusive behavior by an individual or group towards another. Example: Unwanted advances or verbal abuse based on personal attributes.

Whistleblowing occurs when an employee exposes information or activities within a private, public, or government organization that are deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct. Example: Reporting a company’s illegal waste management practices to the authorities.